Music Production Secrets: Larry Crane on Mixing

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6/27/2013

Pull more life and energy out of your existing tracks and create great final mixes. Producer and Tape Op magazine founder Larry Crane is back at Jackpot! Recording Studio in Portland, Oregon, to demonstrate mixing techniques that he uses when producing music for well-known musicians She & Him, The Decemberists, Elliott Smith, Jenny Lewis, The Go-Betweens, and Sleater-Kinney. First, learn how to set up a satisfying and efficient place to listen and mix, and get familiar with working with frequencies. Then Larry shares some of his mixing secrets, such as using compression to change drum sounds, using parallel drum buss compression, and cutting frequencies to clean up a mix. In the second half of the course, he demonstrates his sound processing secrets, like how to best use tape delay on vocals, how to create backwards reverb, and how to choose the right distortion on a bass guitar.

Want more music production secrets? Check out Music Production Secrets: Larry Crane on Recording.

Topics include:

Understanding the mix room acoustics

Cutting frequencies

Prepping vocal takes

Drum mixing

Gating audio for noise elimination or for creative purposes

Creating and using backwards reverb in a DAW

Re-amping guitars, bass, vocals, and more

Skill Level Intermediate

1h 51m

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- My name is Larry Crane.I'm the editor and founder of Tape Op Magazine,and the owner of Jackpot! Recording Studioin Portland, Oregon.I put together this course on mixing in order toshare with others some of the techniques I've learnedover the years,that have helped me create great mixes.In this course, I want to showwhat can be done with existing tracks,in order to make them work betterfor the final mix of a song,and ways to prepare them or treat them,and to pull more life and more excitement out of tracksthat you already have.I want to guide people through a wayof setting up a good place to listen and workon your mixes and your recordings.

And I want to just start with some real fundamentalsabout working with frequencies.(varying sound frequencies)I really to focus ontaking the tracks that you've already recorded,and bring those multi-tracks together,and create a great mix.? Tell me, what do you see? ?To me, mixing is an art,and I'm going to show you some of my secretsfor getting great mixes.